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//TESTDRIVE.EXE
//TESTDRIVE.EXE
 The lights flicker overhead, music blaring from the speakers as you step inside, every sound drowned out except for that hypnotic tune. The walls are painted in an array of hypnotic colors, saturated to the point where your attention doesn't know where to land, and all kinds of screens hang from each corner, showing flashing images of ads, gadget after gadget appearing in a second to show you the best of what Ceres has to offer. Dancing bodies flank each side of the large ballroom, bodies with eyes that look hollow and their faces too symmetrical. They'll occasionally glance at you and smile, maybe even engage and offer to take you to one of the private rooms in the back. However, their words are interrupted when the lights suddenly turn brighter and focus on the center where a raised platform sits. A man appears in the center, one hand raised to silence the music while the other holds a microphone. He pauses to reach out for a glass, snatching it from one of the wait staff passing by before raising it to the crowd. "We've finally obtained our first victory here on Cerealia. The colony is ours completely and will be fully functional from this day forward. Please enjoy all the luxurious amenities we have put together, and join me in journeying towards a new and better future. Together, we will expand our territory here and reach even further horizons. And by all means, don't be shy with the staff. They're also here for your entertainment."He gestures around the room, smiling before taking a sip of his champagne. Applause echoes from the crowd while Julius steps off the stage, handing the mic to one of the staff before pausing for pictures and interviews from reporters. You stand in the crowd as the lights dim once more, lost in a sea of people and wondering where to go next. |
//SCENARIOS.EXE
PHASE I [ 18 PHASE II [ ?? PHASE III [ 21 PHASE IV [ 02 BONUS [ why[ The party will be long, so take your time enjoying each scenario... and dreading it. At the end of it all, things will be calmed down and you're free to enjoy the night as you please. Remember to keep things PG (the FAQ below elaborates!), and absolutely no forcing any R-rated things with anyone below 15-16 (so be sure to ask their age, right?) or the droids will have a little fun chasing you around! Do enjoy the pretty views of the gorgeous digital city though. Which seems strangely quiet, but at this late hour, why not, right? ] |
01 ]
The screens lining the walls inside even extend into the bathrooms and the back rooms, playing commercial after commercial, all CERES themed, as you mingle with the other guests, but occasionally, the image transforms into a flash of something else. It appears for a split-second. There's the face of a woman, lips parted in a soundless cry. She looks to be in pain, fingers pressed to the screen. It's so quick that most don't register it, barely even notice it's there unless they focus. The party continues without incident, otherwise. Because it's a pretty damn good party, isn't it? There's plenty of food, strong drinks - hey, no one under seventeen is allowed to drink - and many decorative people. Just ignore that feeling of being watched! You're just so good looking, after all.
//RUN.EXE
Welcome to CEREALIA's first test drive! Please forgive our appearance as we are going through the final stages game completion. While most pages are under development and/or hidden from the public eye, please don't feel discouraged, since knowing everything doesn't always make the experience. Your characters will know as little as you. For your convenience, we have compiled a mini-FAQ - please read it thoroughly before playing. Thank you! FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS HOW DID MY CHARACTER GET HERE? You may have been just been doing their day-to-day activities - be it swimming or fighting demons - but the next moment, a crack and blinding light - now you're here, in your best attire, celebrating. The memories of your at-home activities fade away like a fleeting dream, and it's replaced with the feeling of happiness. ( You haven't forgotten your past, just that anything you were doing seems far too distant to be important. ) Must be something in the air. You can't remember clearly fighting for CERES, and whatever this Julius Vincere is telling you might be complete bullshit for all you know, but something influences you to play along anyway - if you think about it long enough, perhaps you had fought for CERES after all...?WHO/WHAT IS CERES? WHAT IS CEREALIA? You mean... you don't remember? After all the help you gave it?WHAT FORMAT CAN WE USE FOR THIS TESTDRIVE? Action (brackets/prose), video/voice, and texting are all available via your CEREVICE at this moment. Most functions are currently undergoing a system update, but as long as it is still connected to the Auralia Network, it will be available for communicative uses.WHAT IS ViVID? An amazing VR game! The demo version of ViViD will be here to play, aren't you excited? It's played with headsets that immediately allow you to experience full-body simulation, without having to move out of your seat! You can enjoy the demo world, design your own, play alone, play with a team, but remember, the boss must be beaten! Please check the phase ii thread for details and interactions!SO... PHASE III? Sexy things can happen, you're getting hot and heavy on the dance floor, and there are rooms in the back that can be decorated to your mood, after all. REMEMBER, the age of consent is 15-16, please use your own discretion and don't upset people. For the test drive, any situation that goes above PG (beyond kissing/grinding/light making out... We're lenient) must go into threads in your own journals. Any creeper behavior or unwanted advances will get an IC boot into the Frozen Locker with "Let it Go" on repeat.POWER LIMITATIONS? Actually, no, the characters don't have any of their abilities locked or otherwise suppressed. More info will be i the official FAQ, but so long as you don't destroy the entire game ( and we trust you can use your powers responsibly— as does CERES! ), limitations are nonexistent.OKAY, WHAT ABOUT PREVIOUS GAME MEMORIES? It's completely acceptable to bring a character that has been in a previous game to Cerealia!THE NAME LOOKS FAMILIAR. . . Yes, a loosely related setting concept with a place called CEREALIA was pitched for an ExitVoid phase before the moderators decided to close the game for good. A few of us got together with the original pitchers of the idea since we thought it really awesome and with a lot of potential and decided to try our own thing with it!ARE THE GAMES RELATED? Nope. Not at all, it's been rehashed from the ground up and built to stand on its own as an original place and game.We'll keep coming back to this, so don't worry. |
tyki mikk / d. gray-man / phase i, iii, iv
[ he's spent the better part of the hour (hours? who can tell?) watching the throng of people moving on the dance floor. he can't say he hates the music, but then he isn't crazy about it, either. it's faded to little more than white noise as he partakes in everything there is to offer, and with no small measure of enjoyment. it's free, after all.
he eats, he drinks, he socializes - though he finds it much less pleasurable with the staff, more for that fact that it feels as though he's spoken with the same woman six times already despite having moved to different areas of the room. in the end he settles in one of the booths bordering the back wall, chin propped on his hand as he scans the room for someone or something of interest.
it isn't long before his gaze falls to the screen in time to catch the flash of a woman across it, and his brows quirks more out of curiosity than concern. ]
Well then.
[ he's provided with a drink in the next moment and he lets his gaze sweep around the area again to see if there's anyone who had glimpsed the same thing he did. he meets eyes with one of the occupants and with a barely restrained smile, lifts his hand up in a two-fingered wave and beckons them over. ]
[ phase iii;; ]
[ he's been plied with food and drink for some time now, and along the way managed to catch the arm of someone that didn't seem as though they were a part of the staff. that is to say, they looked more vibrant, more alive than the rest of the occupants with empty smiles and vacant expressions.
utilizing a strength that was more inhuman than human, he ends up pulling them to one of the quieter rooms -- for a talk, of course. he is a gentleman, after all. he's even kind enough to lock the door before moving into the center of the room, fiddling with the hologram there and bathing the room in a warm, red light that carries along with it a more... sinister vibe than he'd perhaps intended.
or maybe he had intended it all along, who knew? ]
So. [ he speaks around a cigarette, tie undone and hanging loosely around his shoulders. a moment later he's barely glancing up, letting his hand fall from the holographic controls to pluck the cig out from between his lips and exhale a slow, easy stream of smoke into the air. ]
Any ideas?
[ phase iv;; ]
[ it's the smell that hits him first, titillating his senses even amidst the alcohol-fueled haze dulling his senses. he's mingled, he's indulged, he's wandered - not far, of course, because he's not quite sure where he would go (and that was a mystery he was still working out, honestly) - and as the party winds down during the last few hours, he's burned through a half packet of cigarettes as he surveys the party-goers with varying degrees of interest.
it's obvious he's not home, though now he finds himself questioning that fact and trying to bridge the connection between then and now. his memories come up blank and disconnected, the gap in time made even more pronounced the longer he tries to make sense of things. "here" is not "there", it is somewhere else entirely. he does not know these faces, of that he was certain.
so then, how...
he's dragged out of his thoughts when he feels something wet on his cheek and he presses his fingers there, drags them away to see the smear of blood on them. something stirs within him and he glances up just as the security guards begin to swarm in and the screams of people echo all around him. it sets his blood boiling - but not for the reasons one might expect.
there's a thrill, a certain excitement to the situation and he can't help but to smile at everything. even if this is a peace he had supposedly fought for - this is far more entertaining. much, much more entertaining, and he can't help but be drawn to it.
so rather than help as he should do, as a defender of Cerealia should have done - he sits. he watches, and he steeples his fingers, gaze riveted on the creature as though he were watching some grand performance.
and if the creature happens to be making a beeline for you? you'd better start screaming at him for help. ]
phase i!
Creator's done good work on her for it, after all, and she floats behind him, a holographic fairy with a body that's strangely tangible for brief periods (an illusion, carefully created by her designer, where he made use of light and sound to create weight- groundbreaking, really) despite being a bunch of light and pixels. One could wonder how she's managing to maintain her image without any close by lights or projectors, but that's the wonder of this place, isn't it.
Her eyes follow what he sees, though, and she speaks in a calm voice, gently interrupting. ]
What seems to be so interesting? Are you thinking of investing, perhaps?
[ The company could use all the help it could get, what with its rebuilding. She steps around him, trying to get a better view of his appearance and why he seems so odd... well, a lot of people are odd, really. ]
You're not enjoying yourself much, either, are you?